Posted on 05/03/2022 6:09:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The poor performance of Russian equipment deployed in the Ukraine war is bound to be giving global buyers second thoughts.
How can it be that a large Russian army attacking force, capable of causing untold destruction, is being checkmated and systematically devastated by Ukraine’s military, in particular its special forces?
And what impact will this have on the Russian army and its industrial backbone, the Russian companies that build the tanks, armored personnel carriers, mobile air defenses and aircraft including fixed-wing and helicopters – all of which have suffered extreme losses in the conflict?
Russia’s exports consist of various commodities, most prominently wheat, oil and gas, and armaments. Before the Ukraine war, Russian arms sales were doing brisk business with an order book running at around $55 billion.
Russia was able to offer capable weapons at a considerable discount over Western companies jousting for the same market and, in some cases, systems that outmatched the competition, such as the Russia-made S-400 air defense system.
But now, with Russian armor, fighter jets, helicopters and mobile air defense systems being blasted by Ukrainian fighters for the world to see, a once rosy sales outlook for Moscow’s arms builders is looking grim.
Interestingly, Russia was able to avoid blame for the crushing defeat of Armenia’s forces (equipped by Russia) by the hybrid forces in Azerbaijan (equipped by Russia, Israel and Turkey).
The key to the Nagorno-Karabakh war was the impact of armed drones and Israeli loitering munitions that zeroed in on enemy air defenses, radars and missile launchers, and crushed them.
One would have thought, given what the Russians surely should have learned from Nagorno-Karabakh, they would have recognized the need to have defenses against drones and loitering munitions in their invasion forces in Ukraine.
(Excerpt) Read more at asiatimes.com ...
In February, Ukraine only had 20 of the Bayraktar drones, but they've been very efficient. The main constraint has been replenishing the bombs they fire.
Okay, keep dreaming:)
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“Less than your post is Russian disinformation.”
Cállate Brandonista.
Yep. Infantry is important again. Helicopters are useful for transport and surprise raids but they are vulnerable if you use them as gunships (Black Hawk Down).
I seem to recall a Russian MoD release indicating they had killed '49' of those 20 bayraktars, and that was maybe still 1 of those still in theater.
Which video game is it this time?
And now countries have exoskeleton suits that allow a soldier to run fast, farther and lift more than anyone ever could using muscle. It would be a lot harder to hit 10 soldiers individually than if they all rode in the same APC.
(If there’s no war the suits are still useful, for instance in warehouse operations. Workers could lift hundred pound packages all day without fatigue)
It's not Call of Duty if you're asking.
In that game the Russians could actually advance more than kilometer a day.
It’s only propaganda because you don’t like it. No other reason.
What makes it obvious is because thats the only argument people like you are able to come up with
ROLFMAO! Keep dreaming.
The author seems like a self published nobody, so I'm not sure it makes a difference.
They are cheap and can therefore be very plentiful. Even if only 10% or less of them kill something, $10 billion worth of tanks squaring off against $2 billion worth of Bayraktars will end up with very few surviving tanks.
And we are not getting the whole story on what is really happening. I think the future of drone warfare is a new type of combined arms with swarms of drones. And not all the same kind of drones like a swarm of hornets, but a combined effort of a swarm of drones of many different types. Think a swarm of hornets, while simultaneously being attacked by a few eagles. Throw in a couple of wolves and you will never see the rattlesnake they herd you toward...
Zot all Russian Trolls.
The free republic Putin fan boys have helped Adam Schiff paint Conservatives as putin supporters.
It could be the days of tanks and similar vehicles are over no matter who makes them. It happened to the battleship.
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I heard that back in the day. Back when the guy next to me in a pitched battle between our guys and some invading tribe, was clubbed to death and the guy behind him was chopped with a stone axe. Ever since then humans have been obsolete.
Infantry is important again. Helicopters are useful for transport and surprise raids but they are vulnerable if you use them as gunships
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More to the point: when you have to launch your helicopter rockets tilted up to get the range without being manpaded.
Infantry is subject to death from sharp pointy things and so is also obsolete.
Its all in how some thing is used. The RGF and VKF are a textbook cases of how NOT to use something, unless you consider that thing expendable.
And now countries have exoskeleton suits that allow a soldier to run fast,
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Um, no.
Any such thing is experimental. Awkward, cumbersome, high and rapid energy drain, good for a few minutes at best. Looks great in movies, but that where they are best - in CGI of blue/green screen.
Mostly we call those suits tanks and APCs.
Right back at ya.
Right back at ya.
Of course.
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